“Don’t be dismayed at good-byes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again. And meeting again, after moments or lifetimes, is certain for those who are friends.”

Richard bach, (Illusions)

"The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation."

Herman Hesse

“The soul takes flight to a world that is invisible, and there arriving she is sure of bliss and forever dwells in paradise.”

Lady Jane Grey, the movie

“Life is like the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority”

Edward Young, 1683 –1765

“Here is a test to find whether your mission on earth is finished: If you’re still alive, it isn’t.”

Richard Bach, (Illusions)

“Dear world, I am leaving you because I am bored. I am leaving you with your worries. Good luck."

George Sanders, suicide note 25 April 1972

"And ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation"

Kahlil Gibran

"There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are messengers of overwhelming grief...and unspeakable love."

Washington Irving

"Tears are the words the heart can't express"

Author unknown

“The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.”

(Little Foxes, 1866)

“We meet but briefly in life, if we touch each other with stardust – that is everything.”

Author unknown.

"It is said that life flashes before your eyes just before you die. That is true, it's called Life"

Terry Pratchett

"If you live to one hundred, I want to live to one hundred minus one day - so I never live a day without you!"

Winnie the Pooh

Death plucks my ear and says, “live – I’m coming.”

Virgil, 70-19BCE

"When you are born you cry and the world is happy, when you die the world cries and you are happy."

from the movie: One Last Thing

"Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of Earth and danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings; sunward I've climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth of sun-split clouds"